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The information requested falls within the responsibility of the UK Statistics Authority. I have asked the Authority to reply.Letter from Karen Dunnell dated June 2009:"As National Statistician, I have been asked to reply to your recent Parliamentary Question asking how many cases of cancer have been diagnosed in (a) Peterborough constituency and (b) England in each year since 2000 (281669).""The latest available figures for newly diagnosed cases of cancer (incidence) are for the year 2006. Numbers of newly diagnosed cases of cancer for the years 2000 to 2006 for (a) Peterborough constituency and (b) England are in Table 1 below."<Table width="100%" summary="" cellspacing="3" cellpadding="3" border="0"><thead><tr><th>Table 1: Registration of newly diagnosed cases of cancer¹, Peterborough parliamentary constituency², and England, 2000 to 2006</th></tr></thead><TR><TD></TD><TD>Peterborough</TD><TD>England</TD></TR><TR><TD>2000</TD><TD>394</TD><TD>229,339</TD></TR><TR><TD>2001</TD><TD>398</TD><TD>232,575</TD></TR><TR><TD>2002</TD><TD>380</TD><TD>230,208</TD></TR><TR><TD>2003</TD><TD>424</TD><TD>234,434</TD></TR><TR><TD>2004</TD><TD>394</TD><TD>239,273</TD></TR><TR><TD>2005</TD><TD>367</TD><TD>241,974</TD></TR><TR><TD>2006</TD><TD>382</TD><TD>242,184</TD></TR><tfoot><TR><td>¹ All cancers, coded to C00-C97 in the International Classification of Diseases, Tenth Revision (ICD-10), excluding non-melanoma skin cancer (C44).</td></TR><TR><td>² Based on boundaries as of 2007.</td></TR><TR><td>Source:</td></TR><TR><td>Office for national Statistics</td></TR></tfoot></Table> |